New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-16
PRICE THREE GENTS.
DRIVEN FORTH BY THIRST.
TENS OF THOUSANDS GO OUT OF THE CITY.
VARIED ATTRACTIONS IN NEw-JERsgY-CRowDs GO
TO OTRER SUBURBAN PLACES.

| 10 OThER SUBURBAN PLACES.
mo Blue Lawi" Those words were printed in
letters foot high on thousands of posters which
decorated bill boards ali over the city yesterday
What little space there was left on the bills was
used to inform readers that in certain places in
the wicked New,Jersey towns on the North River
beer and music were dispensed as freely on Sunday
as on Monday or Saturday, or any other day in the
week Promises of plenty of entertainment were
made In the superlatiye language peculiar Ia
posters, and for the stranger, maps on which were
indicated the termini Of the ferry routes were
appended ~.
1t was hardly necessary to circulate these bills.
Fifty thousand New Yor<ers had made up their
minds to invade jersey on Saturday, and another
fifty thousand followed suit when they realized
how warm the weather was, and that nothing
more agreeable to their palates than water could
be had In this city unless they had taken the
precautiOn to provide themselves with their favor
lte beverage before Sunday came in. 1t was jusJ
about church time when the extent of the exodus
began to be manifested. On all; the thorough
fares leading to the ferries there were seemingly
endless professions Of men, women and children
on.f foot and In carriages and street cars. Around
the ferry houses they spread out into crowds un-
tremendously pushing and scramblng in their
efors 10 get through the narrow spaces over which
the faretaker held sway. Even then their petty
troubles were not over, for the number of bJais
was Inadequate and the people were compelled to
remain from fifteen minutes to an hour in poorly
ventilated, ill-smelling waiting rooms.
Hoboken seemed to offer the longest list Of at
fractions, and that was the destination of a ma
Jority of the people. They went there in mobs,
crowds throngs and collections. Tie mobs made
raids on the fist grogshops they encountered, and
were so reluctant to leave what they regarded as
sure thing in the liquor line for something un-
certain that they got comfortably full and had
no disposition to go further
The crowds walked few blocks to one Of tho
theatres the main street. Their doors were
wide oren and placards at the entrance assured
the amusement seekers that afternoon and evening
performances were given on Sunday. There were
four Of them at which vaudeville performances
were given, and where liquors were sold in the
auditorium. 1hcse were in gleat favor and were
packed TO the doors The New.Yorllers within
could hardly believe that such things could be so
cl)se to the great moral metropolis, and the charm
Of the situation was enhanced for them because
they felt as though they were being just Bit
wicked for change after having lived strictly
in accordance with the prohibitory amusement
la VS. for a month or more At another theatre a
rather Indifferent presentation of the hackneyed
operetta "Biee Taylor" was being given. No beer
was sold here, however, and the crowd Stunned the
place as being too tame and too much like what
they could see any other time at home
The throngs boarded street cars aud diapidated
schuiaen Park: i was opening day there,
and more than 10, 900 people were on hand to make
the opening joyous for the proprietor. They paid
ten cents each at the gate, countless nckels apiece
for beer, rode In the merry-go-round, threw base
balls at dummies tried 20 ring the bell on
targets with projecties fired from weak-iqnged
air guns, bad their photographs taken, watched a
heal: by, looking woman maltreat big drum wh;ie
the ladies orchestra played, grew, Wild with de-
light over feats of an Egyptian jugqler with an
Irish Weabs ae aran sfs
beer ana were then IN good coa-
dition to anatbematIze the men who had
on the only day which workingmen bave TO them
AZ Weehawken there was a ball given and 5000
people went to that jersey City had little to Offer
besides beer, but that was sufficient attraction
to make the town alive With the thirsty folk from
across the river No efforts were made 10 conceal
the fact that liquor being sod the front doors
of the grogshops being open and even policemen 10
uniform beng among the patrons.
estlma teo that Erastus Wimans boats carried over
$4,000 people across the bay Elm Park and the
breweries along the Kill Won Kul had land IN largo
stocks of book beer and no one came back thirsty.
ne East River ferries, too. carried great throngs
to Long Island City. another OF the suburbs whose
chester County beer flowed as freely
as water The authorities there decline
to make arrests Tor violations of the excise law.
claiming that no jury will convict man for selling
beer on sunday. About fifty such eases were ap-
pealed from the decisions of the justices courts
Gently aLd not single conviction was obtamed.
It is estimated that fully 100000 people went
out of the city during the day.
The enforcement of the law here was even
strlcter than last Sunday. In the Nineteenth Pre-
cinct, where the large hotels are and IN which
there are many daring grog-shop proprietors, only
single arrest was made. Captain Williams SAID
that he did not believe drink was sold
in hs jurisdiction. and those who
attempted to get one will probably
agree with him. At the hotels the propretors
were as determined as ever to abide by the opinion
furnished by Corporation Counsel Lacombe aud
under no circumstances would they serve wine or
liquors 10 their guests To avoid the least ehanca
OF Suspicion many of them refused TO allow even
mineral waters TO be taken from the storer0Om.